Ann Siefken

Ann Margaret Siefken, 88, of Burlington, died at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington.

Born July 25, 1924, in Omaha, Neb., she was the daughter of John and Marie Kolovratek Newell. On May 28, 1946, she married Chester J. "Chet" Siefken in Omaha. He died on May 22, 1995.

Mrs. Siefken was a 1940 graduate of South Omaha High School in Omaha. She completed training at the Airway Meteorological Service School in Kansas. During World War II, she was assigned to the U.S. Weather Bureau Station at Burlington airport, where she provided weather forecasting support to the military and civil aeronautics. She met her future husband while stationed there. She was a homemaker and later worked in the office of John Peterson, a physician, for 20 years, retiring in 1987.

She was a member of SS. John and Paul Catholic Church and was a past member of the church choir.

Survivors include one daughter, Kay Eaton of Burlington; two grandchildren; one brother, George Newell of Omaha; two sisters, Marge Morton of Omaha, Barbara Smith of Phoenix, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, two sisters, and two brothers.

The Funeral Mass of the Resurrection for Mrs. Siefken will be at 10 a.m. today at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, with the Rev. Father Marty Goetz as Celebrant. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery. A time of food and fellowship will be held at St. John's cafeteria following burial.

A memorial has been established for Burlington Notre Dame School.

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